Stars Making a Difference: Why & How Marla Mase Is Helping To Change Our World

An Interview With Wanda Malhotra

There are no rules as to how to make it happen. Jump in. Take the action and let go of the results.

Celebrities often hold a unique position of influence and visibility, which they can leverage to significantly impact society. From using their platforms to raise awareness about important issues, to actively engaging in philanthropy and charitable work, these stars are making a real difference in the world. But what motivates them to give back? What challenges do they face, and how do they overcome them? How do they choose which causes to support? As a part of this series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Marla Mase.

Marla Mase, a native New Yorker, was born in Brooklyn and raised in Canarsie. At 18, she moved to Tribeca, where she lived for 32 years, raised her two children, and founded one of NYC’s premier event planning companies, Amore da Matti. In addition to her entrepreneurial success, Marla is a versatile artist — an accomplished writer, performer and recording artist. She recently returned from her third whirlwind tour of the UK this year, promoting her eighth and ninth album releases, The Fine Art of Pissing in the Bushes and Infinite They Went (vinyl). Currently, she is touring Being Somebody, a show she co-wrote and performs alongside her 88-year-old father, Dr. Howard Mase, to sold-out audiences across the East Coast. Her other theatrical works have been featured at prestigious venues such as La MaMa ETC, NYC SummerStage, NJPAC, SXSW, and Nuyorican Poets Café, among others.

Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series! Can you share with us the “backstory” that led you to your career path?

One afternoon when I was in my mid-30’s I was dancing and singing to the Kinks in my loft in Tribeca with my 5-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter. My son was on the coffee table with his mini-electric Fender guitar, my daughter was on the floor with a sparkly disco ball microphone, and me, well I was high up on the dining room table in cowboy boots and ripped jeans. We were singing, “Girl, you really got me going, you got me so I can’t sleep at night, you really got me. You really got me.” I said to my kids, “Look at us. We’re rock stars.” You really got me. You really got me. They said, “Yeah Mom. Yeah.”

What I didn’t say to them, but what I thought is, “I really should be a rocker, but I don’t write music, and I don’t sing. Oh well. Next life.”

Fast forward to 2007. I was having a hard time — my daughter was being ravaged by an eating disorder, my marriage was breaking up, the life I had built was crumbling. My anxiety went from the occasional panic attack to a year-long unrelenting one. 24/7. The only thing that gave me respite, I discovered, was singing. So, I began to sing each morning, songs from The Sound of Music, Chicago, The Little Mermaid, The Clash, Mavis Staples, The Kinks too, whatever moved me…and soon after that, my own songs started coming. I was deluged by them. One after the other. I started to incorporate my original songs into my monologues and writings and began performing them live at clubs in NYC. Acapella!

It was all very healing and miraculous. However, I knew that if I wanted to grow, I needed to work with a musician. I met the brilliant songwriter/producer/guitarist Tomás Doncker in 2009, who focused my ideas/songs (aka co-wrote) and did his Doncker magic on them. He got what I was about right from the get-go. He inspired and encouraged me to take advantage of the momentum I was building and to record an album with the songs from my rock opera A Brief Night Out.

And so, I put my fears aside, and I did it. I was hooked. I began my second album SPEAK immediately afterwards and haven’t stopped since.

Since that time, I’ve recorded 9 albums and toured in China, Europe and the US. I’ve been a featured artist at SXSW, NAM, the taste-making and now defunct Daytrotter, had 3 of my albums produced as multi-media theatrical productions, each with a large cast of actors, dancers and musicians at venues such as Summerstage NYC, NJPAC, La Mama ETC, White Eagle Hall and the Nuyorican Poets Café.

This past year I’ve toured the UK three times in support of my 8th digital album, The Fine Art of Pissing in The Bushes, Vol. 1 and my 1st vinyl album, Infinite They Went. I will be returning to the UK this coming February and again in the Summer 2025. I already have some festival gigs lined up and will be releasing my new album, The Midnight Show.

I also have been touring a show I co-wrote and perform with my 89-year-old father, Dr. Howard Mase, called Being Somebody. He made his NYC stage debut at 87 years old telling stories about growing up as a skinny Jewish kid in the post-war Brooklyn of the 1940’s/50’s. I mirror his themes with stories and songs about growing up in Brooklyn in the disco era of the 1970’s. Since that first show in 2023, we have been on tour. Every show has been sold out with standing ovations. It’s the charm and wisdom of my dad. There is a reason he is beloved by hundreds of mentees as well as his 2 kids, 7 grandkids and his 14 great grandchildren. His kindness, his intelligence, his getting to the heart of the matter, his genuine interest in others, his generosity of spirit. I can go on and on.

The show’s popularity also has to do with the magic of seeing a father/daughter on stage together, the unspoken palpable love between us, and the brilliant vision of our director Elizabeth Browning. This has been one of the biggest blessings of my life.

Can you share the funniest or most interesting story that occurred to you in the course of your career? What were the lessons or takeaways that you took out of that story?

Doing the show with my dad is definitely one of the highlights and most interesting stories of my career. Never would I ever have imagined to be onstage with my father, let alone have a hit show. It all started after the death of my mom, his wife of 64 years. She had been bed-bound with Lewy Body Dementia for 4 ½ years and my dad was her primary caretaker. When she passed, he knew that he had lost one of his biggest sources of love and he asked the question of himself that he often asks his clients: Where Do You Get Your Love From? He knew he had to do something.

We were sitting shiva… My longtime acting coach and friend came to pay her respects when I said, “Dad, read Elizabeth your stories.” He takes out the stories he had written in 1988 when he was 52 years old and starts to read them. Elizabeth is laughing, smiling, and crying, when suddenly she says, “Howard this is a show.” “Yeah Dad. Yeah.” “And Marla should be in it too.” “Yeah, Dad yeah.” He had never acted before in his life but there was something in him that propelled him to say YES!

My dad as a dad is a yes man. Whatever I am doing in my life, he has always supported it with a resounding yes. I wrote him a letter of thanks about it on his 80th birthday. But this was a different YES, this was a YES to himself, a YES to knowing he needed extra taking care of, extra love, with the loss of mom and instead of shrinking in, he expanded out. He said YES and he went way out of his comfort zone, doing things he hadn’t done in years. Traveling in a car for two hours to go upstate and rehearse. Twelve hour days outside the house. Learning what blocking meant and doing ‘woo woo’ acting exercises to relax. One doesn’t think of 87 as a time for exploration, but he did it and guess what happened? He discovered a new passion — a passion for performing. He got ‘bit by the bug’ and here we are one year and a half later getting bookings and traveling around the US on tour. He just took a plane for the first time in 15 years. Mom didn’t fly.

Before each show, when we’re backstage ready to go on, he looks at me and says “Would you ever have believed that you and I would be on stage together?” “No Dad. Never.” He squeezes my hand and gives me a big hug as we make our entrance into the world that is Being Somebody.

What would you advise a young person who wants to emulate your success?

Don’t believe the inner negative voices that say to you that you can’t do something unless you have x, y, z in place.
Don’t underestimate yourself — you never know what you are capable of, and if you are compelled or drawn to do something that you don’t think you can do, explore it anyway. Go for it. You might discover that you were wrong about yourself.
Be ready to work hard. Very hard.
Invest in your career. There is no success without spending money.
It’s okay to ask for help. No one can do it alone.
Don’t believe the outside voices and the so-called rules out there — i.e. you have to look a certain way, sing a certain way, be a particular age to ‘make it’, you need to spend less time thinking about the number of your social media followers and more time on your art.
It’s never too late. I started music in my 40’s and despite what you might hear that if you don’t start as a teenager or at most in your early 20’s, you’ll never make it, it’s simply not true. The world said yes to me, and I’ve made a career out of it. Look at my father. As he says, “You’re never too old to be young.”
Don’t listen to the No’s: No, you can’t. No, that’s impossible. No, you don’t have what it takes. Be particularly wary of your own internal no’s. Those voices tend to be the harshest and most crippling. I know I’m repeating myself here, but we all need to hear this over and over again. We are often our own worst enemy.
There’s an expression, “What other people think about me is none of my business.” If you are your own worst enemy, expand that to, “What I think about me is none of my business.”
There’s no one who can bring to the table what you can. There is only one you in the world. Proclaim it. Share it.
Be yourself. Authenticity and originality work.
Repeat: Be prepared to work your ass off.
Be aware of social media. (Hey, I admit, I spend way too much time scrolling and yes, it does at times impact me negatively. I can be overwhelmed by all the noise — the cacophony of opinions, “facts”, news, inspirational quotes… Suddenly, there’s pressure to think and act positive at all times, and of course when that doesn’t happen, it’s like “See, see, more proof that you’re a failure.” “Why aren’t these affirmations working? Why aren’t I happy all the time? “I must not be grateful enough.” “I’m not meditating enough. Praying enough…Waking up early enough… Blah blah blah… “ AAHHHH!
You are a human being. You think. You feel. You make mistakes. You struggle. Don’t give yourself a hard time for being human.
Be kind.

Is there a person that made a profound impact on your life? Can you share a story?

Yes, FLACO — the Escaped Eurasian Eagle Owl. Ok, he’s not a person, but FLACO was my hero of 2023 and hands-down one of the great heroes of my life. If you don’t know the story of Flaco, google it.

Here’s a short version: Flaco was born in captivity in North Carolina and lived at the Central Park Zoo in NYC. In February of 2023, just days before his 13th birthday, his enclosure was vandalized, the steel mesh of his cage cut, a hole was made, and he escaped. At first, no one thought he could survive. Not the Central Park Zoo, the Wildlife Conservation Society or the thousands of birders following the story. He had never flown — the enclosure wasn’t even large enough to accommodate his 6 ft wing-span; he had never hunted for food, and he had never been exposed to the elements. The zoo people and the police all tried to capture him in the days following his escape, enticing him with his daily diet of dead mice. Didn’t work. He wouldn’t take the bait or hop into the cage they had waiting for him once he did. Instead, he began creating a life for himself in the park. Within a week or two, he began successfully hunting for rats, honed his flying and swooping skills and was living on his own, the entirety of Central Park his kingdom. The powers that be gave up trying to capture him and for the next year he lived as he was intended.

What I learned:

Freedom is Everything. Here’s an owl who had been encased his entire life in a space that was 9 x 14 with two fake trees and a fading backdrop of his ‘natural environment’. He was not a star ‘exhibit’ at the zoo and was often overlooked by visitors running to see the popular penguins and polar bears. Perhaps I’m anthropomorphising here, but I’ve seen photos of Flaco in his cage at the zoo and in each he looks gray and colorless and yes, depressed. Then by some miracle he was given an opportunity to have a different life, and he took it. I question whether another owl would have done the same. It takes courage and curiosity to leave the environs you know. Another owl might have been too afraid to take the freedom that was offered. How many of us reject opportunities that will ‘set us free’ out of fear of the unknown? How many times have I done so in my life, staying with what is familiar, and rejecting the potential miracle being offered me?

He defied the odds. No one, including the experts, thought Flaco would survive and understandably so. But once it was apparent he was surviving and thriving, he had a fan club (including me) of millions throughout the world and thousands in NYC who were following his adventures and exploits daily. I cannot even begin to describe the joy that Flaco’s adventures brought to my life each and every day of that one year. The first thing I’d do when I’d wake up and the last thing I’d do before going to sleep was search for the latest Flaco news — his whereabouts, what he did, his interactions with hawks, blue jays, crows, his fans and of course, the photos. (A huge thanks to David Lei and Jacqueline Emery who devoted their hearts, their eyes, their talents and gifted the rest of us with photos and posts.)

For me, well, you have to understand, I lost my 24-year-old daughter to depression in 2017 (she died by suicide) and since that time, my mornings have been rough. I wake up sad, anxious, heartbroken. My sleep is fraught and not particularly peaceful. Lots of chatter in my brain. Her death also taught me a huge life lesson — that sometimes, things do not work out, that sometimes, you don’t get the happy ending. This is not negative. It’s simply a life truth.

To live in reality is a spiritual act….

I remind myself of this each day.

The story of Flaco’s blossoming was for me, another life truth, an uplifting one — that it is possible to defy the odds, that one can overcome what seems like a fait accompli — and seeing those heartwarming, inspiring Flaco updates each and every morning, helped me to navigate through my morning sadness. At his peak, Flaco could be heard hooting from water towers atop the rooftops of 20 story buildings along the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was, for a brief period of time, The King of New York. It was magical.

A few days after the year anniversary of his escape, Flaco died. He had contracted Pigeon Herpes, a disease that kills Eurasian Eagle Owls in a matter of days. They also found rodenticide in his system. The rats he had been eating were full of poison. We all knew that might happen, but to me, his year of living wild and free as the magnificent creature he was meant to be, was worth it. I believe Flaco would say the same if he could.

What “myths” would you like to dispel about what it is like being a celebrity?

Well, I’m not a celebrity in the sense that I am incessantly hounded by paparazzi and fans, or that I’m unable to walk down the street. I don’t need a bodyguard and I don’t have a backlog of millions of fan letters. I have my privacy, my life is my own, and I am extremely grateful for that privilege.

However, I would like to dispel the myth that if you become ‘famous’ ‘well-known’ or are an ‘internet star’ that all your problems will go away. The myth that says, people with success are happier, less depressed, less anxious, and more apt to face the challenges that life presents us with. It’s simply not the case. The truth of the matter is this: the celebrity you attain will not fill that hole, ‘you know the hole I’m talking about’, that existential emptiness and yearning that we all feel. That remains famous or not. In fact, it’s a trap to think that we can fill it. And yet, at some point I believe we all think we can. With money, with power, with the perfect partner, with having a great body, with the dream house, the dream job, the dream yacht, the best sex, with recognition, with drugs, with ….etc etc etc. No matter how high that Tower of Babel gets, it never is high enough. We want to build it up — higher and higher — we want more and more and more. Meanwhile the hole remains. It can never be filled, and it keeps us insatiable. That’s its purpose — to remain. Why? Is it to remind us of something we forgot — something from long ago — what? A time when we lived in The Garden of Eden? Of something greater?

I believe it’s a spiritual portal.

I finally let go of trying to fill it when my daughter died. I realized that I could never fill the hole that losing her left. What could possibly fill that space? Absolutely nothing. Nor did I want to fill it. That hole is proof of my love for her.

So, even while you’re enjoying your successes and your renown, and are proud of your achievements (as we all deserve to be and need to be) please take care of that person inside, the one who thinks they are a fraud, the one who struggles with despair, the one who swings from thinking he/she is the greatest to thinking he/she is a complete loser, the one who is afraid, and feed him/her with whatever brings serenity and calm. I like walking in the park, going to the beach, swimming in the ocean, hanging with friends, sitting in the movie theater with strangers (yes, I still go to the cinema, every chance I get), listening to classical music and connecting. I especially like connecting to all of you. Sharing stories. Art. This is what heals me and makes me thrilled to be alive. It’s not the big stuff — fame, success, money, material items — sure it feels good, sure it matters, but remember a hole is a hole is a hole. Work on your wholeness, and your peace of mind will follow.

Ok super. Let’s now move to the main part of our discussion. How have you used your success to bring goodness to the world? Can you share with us the meaningful or exciting causes you are working on right now?

Right now, my most important project is THE LAEL PROJECT. It is named after my daughter Lael Summer who died by suicide in 2017. The Lael Project is a tribute to Lael’s music and her life, as an artist and even more importantly as someone who was devoted (because of her own struggles) to helping others who were struggling with depression, suicide ideation and other mental health issues.

The musical component of The Lael Project will be an ongoing series of releases featuring both original songs and covers recorded by Lael during her brief but impactful music career. The project will consist of re-mixes, never-before-released material, live recordings dating back to her pre-teen years and remastered versions of her two existing albums, Burden to Bear (2013) and Life in Color (2015).

By re-releasing her music as well as releasing new songs and never heard before tracks, it is our way to continue what she started and to carry on her wish “to help just one person.” One person, as we all know, is an entire world. Because her songs are pre-dominantly about her struggles, whether they are songs of empowerment or hard truths about living with depression and anorexia, we believe they may serve as a powerful vehicle in helping to remove the stigma and the silence that mental health issues are often enshrouded in. By sharing her songs, her life story and our life story (mental illness is a family ‘disease’) we hope it will give others the permission and the safety to talk about their own, and perhaps prevent future suicides and pave the way to healing. We want people to know they are not alone, that they can talk about it without judgment or commentary, that we are here to hold the space — and perhaps this opening up may be a first step on the path out of the darkness.

What methods are you using to most effectively share your cause with the world?

Lael’s Voice and Music

“We wondered how it was possible for a young person, still in college, a baby, really, in the music industry, to be able to immediately access the power of her voice and lyrics and use this to unabashedly channel her truth. We would soon come to learn of Lael’s journey to this place and realized that there was blood on every note.

-Tomás Doncker, CEO of True Groove Records

Her music will continue to be available on all the major streaming platforms — Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, etc. Her first single will be released on December 6, 2024. Please keep a look out for Lael Summer.

TEDx Talks / Podcasts

People have approached me over the years to speak about my experience as a mother who lived with and lost a child to depression/suicide — about what I know about it and how I am surviving. I am beginning to let people know that I am available for talks, symposiums, performances, fundraisers, etc.

Collaborating with organizations that share the same mission of talking about mental health issues and suicide; of breaking the silence and the stigma; and letting people who struggle know they are not alone, that they are loved and supported; that they are heard; that their struggles and their strength and their challenges are seen; the same goes for the family members and friends of those who are suffering — we are here for you all, too. Through these affiliations we hope to continue the cross-pollination already happening out there. There are many of us and yet there’s a long way to go.
Getting out there, boots on the ground, and connecting with people. I find the best way of doing that is through live performance. There is nothing like being in a room with people, connecting through music and through storytelling. Funny stories, hard stories, love stories. I mean, isn’t every story a love story in the end? I think it is. So, let’s do it. Face to face. In an intimate setting, “Hey this is me.” “Hey, this you.” “Hey, this is us.” “Let’s be alive together.” “It’s the best thing we can do.”

Can you share with us a story about a person who was impacted by your cause?

Because I share my story, my truth, my experience via my shows, my music and on social media, I am often reached out to by people, many of whom I barely know, that may be having a hard day, struggling with life, or who just want to have a sounding board for some difficult feelings. Someone recently told me she often feels like she doesn’t want to live but would never unlive herself because of her kids, her parents, her friends…and that seeing my posts on social media showing up for life via my art, my music, despite my many losses — inspires her to do the same. I have received many similar messages over these past 7 years. If my choosing and wanting to be in life can serve as a role model and provide hope for others, then my work is done. What else is there?

What are your “5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I First Started” and why? Please share a story or example for each.

1. There are no rules as to how to make it happen. Jump in. Take the action and let go of the results.

2. You don’t know what you are capable of.

It was 1998. I was considering taking another acting class. My kids were 2 and 6 at the time, my event business was flourishing and I needed to get out and do something for myself. My friend said, “Why don’t you take this class, Creating A One Person Show, at Ensemble Studio Theatre?”

I said, “What, are you crazy? I’m not Eric Bogosian, Sandra Bernhardt, or John Leguiziamo.” Just the thought of it was terrifying. It was sooooo not who I was. I was shy, nothing that dramatic ever happened in my life that would merit making anything to make a show out of it. I was not a character actor. I was not a comedian. I was not confident enough. All I could think about were all the reasons why not to do it and what I was NOT.

“Why NOT? You like acting. You like writing.”

At the first class we had to write 20 mins on a specific word. Mine was Shoes. Then we went around the room and read what we had written. After I finished, people were like, “Wow, you’re like Lou Reed, Eric Bogosian, Patti Smith. “I thought, ‘This? This shit? This is what I write every day. I’d been journaling for years. I couldn’t believe that my crazy stream of consciousness would appeal to anyone, but it did and truthfully, all my art stems from this place…this place of an oftentimes overwhelming rapid fire barrage of words, thoughts, feelings…what I thought was ‘crazy’ was exactly the thing that resonated. And guess what? That monologue on Shoes became my first play, The Canarsie Line.

3. A miracle/breakthrough is often disguised as desperation.

I already discussed that in my backstory above. It was a “nervous breakdown” that led me to do something I knew I could never do. Sing.

4. Don’t wait for perfection — you’ll be waiting forever.

5. You are interesting enough exactly the way you are. You don’t have to be anyone but yourself.

You are a person of enormous influence. If you could start a movement that would bring the most good to the most people, what would that be? You never know what your idea can trigger. 🙂

A movement that would let people know that they are enough, that they are loved. See Lael Project above, as well.

Can you please give us your favorite “Life Lesson Quote”? Can you explain how that was relevant in your life?

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” — Albert Einstein

I wish I could tell you that I live my life fully in accordance with this quote, that I’m a glass half full person, who sees life for the most part as wondrous and beautiful. Truth is, I do see it that way. However, I have a hard time reconciling all that miraculous beauty with the horrific atrocities that humans have committed/perpetuated throughout history and continue to do every day — the cruelty, the meanness, the inhumanity, the greed, the awfulness. How can any of this be perceived as a miracle?

Having said that, I think about miracles a lot. I believe in them, but I don’t count on them. That’s something I’ve heard myself say many times to others and to myself. It’s my way of comforting myself and remaining hopeful.

I wrote a show and an album called Miracles~Lost & Found. There’s a story in this show about a fishmonger named Schlomo who hears a fish in his shop talking to him. “Let the people know that they need to unite, that the Moshiach is coming, that they have to be ready. End days. End days.” He implores Schlomo, “Please tell the people they must stop all the division and hatred before it’s too late.” Schlomo tells the fish he can’t do it. He’s not capable, he doesn’t have the skills, he’s afraid. “Why me?” he asks. He also doubts what he’s seeing and hearing. How is it possible that a fish is speaking? “I’ve gone mad” he thinks, although his assistant, Angel, hears the fish as well. “Could it be that we’ve both gone mad?” So, what does he do? He orders Angel to kill the fish, to shut him up. They each grab a butcher knife and frantically begin chopping up every fish in the tank — still, they cannot silence the fish. “Please tell the people. Unite. Unite.” Suddenly there is silence. Every fish has been slaughtered. Schlomo is relieved. He then looks down and sees a hand floating in the tank. In his frenzy to silence the fish, he had chopped off his own hand.

Schlomo is a religious man and has been praying for this exact miracle every day of his life, but when the miracle actually appears before him, he freaks out, he doubts. It doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t fit into reality as he knows it. He simply could not handle it. He couldn’t handle the miracle. Instead, he kills it.

This story (based on a true story) makes me think about the miracles we encounter every day, that we overlook because we, like Schlomo, cannot handle it, it doesn’t make sense, it doesn’t fit in with what we know or what we’ve been taught, so it’s much easier to kill it than to accept the possibility that is being presented to us.

I struggle with seeing the death of my daughter as a miracle. Yeah, I know that her death has expanded my capacities. I have grown immeasurably, and I am way stronger than I ever imagined. I am also not the same person I was before….but a miracle? I’m not that evolved yet as a human. My spirit perhaps is, but Marla, the human mother will grieve forever. And yes, because of her death, I do see the miraculous in our world much more clearly. I’m more open to it because I also know what great sadness is. Perhaps, it’s in the space of this contrast where the miracles live.

Still, Einstein is right…I know he is.

We are very blessed that some of the biggest names in Business, VC funding, Politics, Sports, and Entertainment read this column. Is there a person in the world, or in the US whom you would love to have a private breakfast or lunch with, and why? He or she might just see this if we tag them 🙂

Hmmmm…

Dr. Xavier Amador is an internationally renowned clinical psychologist. He founded the LEAP Institute and his book “I’m Not Sick. I Don’t Need Help” about dealing with people with serious mental illness who have Anosognosia has profoundly impacted my life. I’m not going to get into the details but let me just say that I’d love to thank him for his life’s work, his compassion for those with severe mental illness and his advice to never abandon a LO with these conditions. He has taught me to meet the LO where they are at, to listen, and to prioritize the building of a loving and trusting relationship with my LO above all else. Thank you, Thank you, Dr. Amador. And…yes, I have questions. Lots and lots of questions.

Haruki Murakami — I love his writing, his sensibility, the way he accepts life and loss, the mysticism and surrealism in his works, his portrayal of despair, his passive male narrators whose lives are thrown upside down by the women they meet, his portrayal of fascinating women, and his acceptance and painting of ‘the all of life.”

“Nothing can heal the loss of a beloved. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can heal that sorrow. All we can do is live through the sorrow and learn something from it.” (Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood)

How can our readers follow you online?

For general info about Marla Mase: https://www.marlamase.com/

For show info and tour updates on her play Being Somebody: https://www.beingsomebodytheshow.com/

And also for information on The Lael Project: https://www.thelaelproject.com/

Thank you so much for these amazing insights. This was so inspiring.

About the Interviewer: Wanda Malhotra is a wellness entrepreneur, lifestyle journalist, and the CEO of Crunchy Mama Box, a mission-driven platform promoting conscious living. CMB empowers individuals with educational resources and vetted products to help them make informed choices. Passionate about social causes like environmental preservation and animal welfare, Wanda writes about clean beauty, wellness, nutrition, social impact and sustainability, simplifying wellness with curated resources. Join Wanda and the Crunchy Mama Box community in embracing a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle at CrunchyMamaBox.com .

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